Enterprise Information Systems

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Enterprise Information Systems

SPEEDE/ExPRESS Electronic Exchange of Student Records (Transcripts) ... and more!

January 1, 1994

With increasing student demands for improved service and reduced institutional resources, this exciting new technology is one answer. The national project by the National Center for Education Stati…

Chasing the Boulder Down the Hill: Reengineering and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania

January 1, 1994

Penn is one of the first universities to combine the reengineering of business processes with an information technology architecture. At CAUSE 93 we talked about pushing the boulder up the hill-con…

SIS 2000 - The University of Arizona's Team Approach to Client/Server Migration: Strengthening Old Partnerships and Forging New Ones

January 1, 1994

The University of Arizona, like many other institutions, knows that it has reached an impasse with its administrative systems. The mainframe is overloaded, the files are getting bigger, the enhance…

Project Mandarin[TM]: Implementing Distributed Computing at Cornell University

January 1, 1994

Based on the assumption that their purpose was to provide information to all University "customers," some of whom might need access only occasionally, Cornell Information Technologies (CI…

EXEMPLAR! A Consortium for Administrative Software Sharing

January 1, 1994

Folks, we are being left behind. While our institutions are wanting to move ahead more aggressively, people in administrative computing seem to be falling further behind. The life cycle of the typi…

Decision Support at Stanford: Partnering with Users

January 1, 1994

Stanford University has been developing its Decision Support System(DSS) since the summer of 1992. The nine person team's primary mission is to significantly improve the University's dat…

Partnering Within the Institution and Beyond

January 1, 1994

July 1994 marked the beginning of an aggressive campaign at Virginia Tech to replace approximately 30 core administrative applications - moving from a mainframe to a server-based environment in a 3…

Rightsizing - Changing the Culture

January 1, 1994

Syracuse University has embarked on a project to move all of its administrative computing application from a mainframe to a client/server environment. Early in this project, it became apparent that…

Project Implementation Using a Team Approach

January 1, 1994

Lafayette College is a small, private liberal arts college in Easton, PA. The administrative activities of the College are supported by the five member staff of Administrative Computing Services wh…

Building Partnerships on Best Practices: New Alliances for the Nineties

January 1, 1994

Two major changes have evolved in the management of higher education over the past several years: 1) repositioning, downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering have resulted in new ways of adminis…